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Former student, now pop star in Japan, recounts story

A school-sponsored trip to Japan sparked a love for all things Japanese in Chris Hart, a 13-year-old African-American teenager from Palo Alto. Today at 28, Hart lives in Tokyo and makes his living singing soulfully -- in Japanese -- across Japan.

Posted by Former Gunn parent
a resident of Gunn High School
on May 20, 2013 at 11:49 pm

Thank you to Teacher Yukie Hikida's great personality and influential teaching on her students. My two sons had been her students and loved her Japanese class, too. I will send them this wonderful article about her impact on society.